Mistral said: <There is at least one piece of evidence in B7 that Gan's limiter may similarly function on intent, or more accurately, on emotion; Blake says in 'Breakdown': "The limiter is supposed to cut in when stress drives him to the point where he might kill.">
Which also indicates that the use of the thing is rather (pun not intended but unavoidable) limited. If it works on stress levels - i e people who kill under stress or intense emotion - anyone who kills disapssionately (like Blake, for instance) would have no trouble circumventing it :-)
<grin> Travis, on the other hand ... if he had one, might the thing mistake his surge of emotion (albeit triumphal joy) on finally getting to Blake as some form of stress and stop him? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Sally said:
Which also indicates that the use of the thing is rather (pun not intended but unavoidable) limited. If it works on stress levels - i e people who kill under stress or intense emotion - anyone who kills disapssionately (like Blake, for instance) would have no trouble circumventing it :-)
I wouldn't say that Blake is dispassionate about killing, more that any killing he does is part of a plan involving rational objectives about which he feels strong emotion.
BTW, although I'm certainly not the world's greatest Blake fan, I think he's a good enough judge of character that he would not treat a maniacal serial killer as a valued shipmate--and nobody else seems frightened of or disgusted by Gan when his limiter isn't malfunctioning. Some of Blake's extreme grief in "Trial" is caused by the loss of any crew member--but a lot of it is due to Blake's respect and liking for Gan as an individual.
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